1Love Poetry

That�s a quote from a review by David Orr in the New York Times, 2008, of Modern Life by the American poet Matthea Harvey.  Not exactly today�s news.  I think I found it...

Poets first.  302 for, 69 against, 11 abstentions.  That was the vote on a motion of no confidence in the Poetry Society�s board, at the EGM this afternoon.  The board had already said...

The Euro is in crisis mode.  The US faces budget deadlock.  News International�s scalp count keeps going up.  The Arab Spring is in trouble.  The world population is about to hit 7 billion. ...

When John Ashbery reviewed Elizabeth Bishop�s Collected Poems, he called her �a writer�s writer�s writer�.  Her famous attention to redrafting could be one reason.  Redrafting is difficult.  It can be depressing and frustrating,...

         RosesThe world is mine.Wherever I goI throw roses at everyone.The artist loves every marble ear that hears his words.What are pain, misery to me?Everything has fallen with a crash:I sing.So rises pain�s...